Temperatures areawide upper 40s from charles city down to waterloo, iowa city the warm spot at 61, there are wind speeds gusting from 6 to 16 Miles Per Hour out of the north northwest. Mostly cloudy skies, scattered showers moving in this afternoon, we have showers getting in around 9 00 in the morning they will be with us until the early afternoon and then by 4 00 they will exit the area. Cloudy and breezy today scattered showers temperatures in the low to mid 50s, freeze warnings and frost advisories tonight into tomorrow morning, i will let you know how low the temperatures go coming up. Construction will soon begin on permanent flood protection in cedar rapids. Stephanie johnson is live in cedar rapids explaining where the city is going to start. Reporter good morning, the that will start at the African American museum stretching 2 10th avenue. Where the substation is located, yesterday the city broke ground on the 14 million project, the city wants to build it high enough to prote
In the area are casting their 4 seconds tractor nats were starting off tonight with have a crew at the event and for joining us. Is going to get very chilly High Pressure tracks through the temperatures will be closer to normal as we head into friday lead to scattered showers and thunderstorms saturday afternoon and evening. Sunday will be and while the general election is still 27 days away some iowans already have their minds made up. Were hearing from some early voters heading to the booth in the midst of the final election push. Kwwls Macleod Hageman joins us live with more. Mac . The 2016 president ial race has been one of the most contentious campaigns americans have ever seen. Scandals aside several cast their ballots early. I just dont like the way its share who they want to lead the country. But according to county officials the number of people voting absentee is down more than four thousand people. We asked Black Hawk County auditor grant veeder why . That is the 64,000 ques
Morning. The friday morning commute is going to be pretty darn wet. You can see this is what were alluding to. All this moisture, as i back it out a little bit, see how its mainly going south of here . Thats moisture from the hurricane that was in the baja area being pulled or vected into our area. So areas from San Francisco south will probably see more rain from this event than anybody else. Were going to show you in a few minutes those burn areas near the soberanes fire where they are concerned about flooding or mudslides. Temperatures are mild right now. Theyre going to stay mild because the air is so warm, the air mass, and were setting up with some significant rain, especially in the Santa Cruz Mountains south into big sur as we go through the next couple of days. You get a lot of rain in the coastal hills. Less rain on the other side. When i come back we will be more current with the radar and show what you you can expect with the computer model hour by hour. All right, bill, th
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Maybe 3 four inches as we get in over the course of time. You can see it clearly and right now and parts of the count and areas so far. And the areas that are the most the rain it is falling out south of here. It is wet and the afternoon commute. Does not take much. And right now radar. You have scattered showers none of the rain is going it is just persistent. Wet through the next 3, 4 days when it rains it will be a mist and drizzle and it will add up. And when i come back thats the radar thats what is happening. Well push forward and how can you plan the weekend in the friday. Power lines are well under way and were live now in oakland and talking with crews are doing to get ready. Reporter we have not seen much rain quite yet there were a couple of drizzles but they tapered off, were alive over highway 24. And get to the other side and in the east bay they do during the day. And just a little worse. We did see rain and umbrella and drivers had the wipers on. And located and this we