Demand at the holidays. Obviously were anticipating more growth this year and thats why we have the need for all the additional folks. Three years ago, during christmas 2013, ups guessed wrong about the surge in Online Shopping and disappointed some buyers with after christmas deliveries. One driversupervisor remembers that year and says the Company Learned a valuable lesson. Get the holiday help in early. It created significant challenges for us. We worked to see a surge again. The u. S. Postal service is also on a hiring spree for holiday help now with hundreds showing up at job fairs in september in cedar rapids and des moines. The iowa usps district also needs 600 more people to get through the holidays and its not for cards and letters. Theres pressure for all the Delivery Companies obviously but postal workers are good about chipping in and making sure were successful. Have a good shipping experience. Extra help hired for the holidays might mean working only 4. Or. 6. Or maybe ei
Along ellis boulavard people still enjoy riverfront property while some in cedar rapidswere a part of buyouts after the 2008 flood the cityturning their homes along the river into greenspacedriveways can be foundleading to nowhere. Some current homeownersworriedt elling us off camerathey dont intend to leave their homes several of them hanging pirate flags last week to symbolize being on barriers were not going to be probably approaching them for a better part of a decade. The mayor says although there will be future buyoutsin order for permanent flood protection they will be optional. Our hope is to negotiate a sale price with all of these properties that are going to be on the wet side but again its not a mandatory sale, the city is not instead he says they are example of what this permanent flood Protection System could the idea is during a flood downtown is operating as normal. But the city saysthey have about twothirds of the promised since 2008still hasnt come through. Congress h
Attacks in paris is dead. A french Prosecutor Says authorities found his body in an apartment raided yesterday morning. 129 people died in the four coordinated attacks last friday. Abcs Marci Gonzalez has the latest from paris. His body so riddled with bullets and shrapnel . Inve stigators could only identify him by his fingerprints. The socalled mastermind of the attack here that killed 129 people Abdelhamid Abaaoud . Kille d during this dramatic seige in the suburbs of paris yesterday. Nat raid abaaoud was a petty criminal, police say was also behind other isis plots including the attempted attack on a parisbound train earlier this year. French authorities thought the 27yearold was in syria theyre now looking into how he was able to sneak across borders into france to lead this terror cell . That investigators say was planning another attack. Presser it is urgent for europe to should come together organized to defend itself from terrorist threat . This morning more raids in Belgium P
Some point, today is the last day for golfers in des moines. All city courses except for blank are closing for the season. Appropriate timing. Good morning, welcome back. Eric no doubt when you walk outside today he will see the changes in the air and its coming and tomorrow. Metinka we have all the wind out there that is making it feel cooler, battling wind on the road today too. Down into the 20s in wind chill, 24 is the wind chill at ames. Nothing dangerously cold, it will be a shock to your system. Strongest wind expected to last until 3 00 or 4 00 this afternoon. Wind as high as 50 coming in from the west. Our attention is focused on the snowstorm and may start as a wintry mix, maybe chilly rain changing to slushy accumulation by the afternoon with most accumulation coming friday night and two very early on saturday. Get ready for a cold weekend in the teens, highs only in the 30s. Eric french leaders are calling on the world to do more to stop isis terrorists. Elizabeth this come
First, meteorologis t kaj omara has your first alert forecast, kaj. Plan on a cool and windy day across eastern iowa. The wind will gust at times to 45 or even 50mph. A wind advisory is in effect for the entire tv9 viewing area through sunset. Plan on highs into the lower and middle 50s, but at least well have some sunshine. The main focus of the next few days is the snow that will arrive on friday night. While snow is possible before sunset, accumulation s will be limited. However, once the sun goes down, snow should increase in intensity and last the entire night. Snow will linger right into saturday morning. Plan on 46 to be on the ground by saturday morning in many areas, with trends of a narrow heavier band trying to set up around cedar rapids and or dubuque. Well continue to monitor these trends as this stem develops. We coura you to stay tuned to the latest tv9 rst alert recast and to get Free Download of the tv9 ather app, for video updates d dar at your fingertips. Tod ay most