Will see nothing. Once this front sinks to the south later tonight, rain chances are over until late sunday as a big, blocking ridge of High Pressure expands southward over the area. This is in response to a Tropical Storm that should move into florida later this week. There is still potential for this to become a hurricane as well. Regardless of what happens there, our weather should be great with highs mainly in the 70s from wednesday through saturday. Today chance storms. Nd lighthigh 82 tonight stor partly cudy. Wind nw 510. Low 62 tomorrow mostly sunny and less humid. Nd ne 515. High 79 tom. Nigh clear and comfortable. Wind ne 510. Low 56 thanks kaj. Will soon get 128yearold building before winter. The Cedar Rapids City Council will hold a special meeting today to talk about giving the Company Access to the building. Last month, the council picked a proposal from hobart to turn the building into apartments and office space. Council members liked the idea of immediately stabilizing
35yearold man now faces charges after he took in two 16yearold girls so he could turn them into prostitutes. Police say they found two 16yearold girls as part of a shoplifting investigation, one of whom is missing from chicago. They arrested lawrence campbell, who now faces Human Trafficking charges and charges for using minors to commit crimes. Police say campbell contacted the girls in chicago and asked them to move to his waterloo home. Then, police say campbell arranged for them to have sex with people for money and to the web. State lawmakers today have a better idea on what working and whats not when it comes to iowas newly privatized medicaid system. However, the answer you get when you ask if its working depends on who you talk to. Republican lawmakers at a Health Policy Oversight Committee hearing yesterday said managed Care Organizations are meeting their benchmarks. They said the companies are working out payment issues, and the transition has saved the state millions of dol
Others in the home were receiving care under optimae life services, which provides care to those with disabilities. In chicago, firefighters say someone intentionally set this fire that killed 4 people 3 of them children. The fire started around 1 30 this morning in a South Chicago neighborhood. Police say some set the fire on a porch after a domestic fight. It took around 200 firefighters from 58 Fire Companies about 3 hours say they saw several people jumping from windows trying to escape the flames. Police are now searching for a person of interest in this case, wanted for questioning. A roadside bomb in afghanistan claimed the life of an american solider and hurt another. It also injured six afghan soldiers. The us military says it happened during a training and advisory operation in the helmand province. The attack comes 1 day after the military sent 100 us troops to that area be at higher risk of falling to the taliban. Nats of explosion and in iraq, iraqi forces are pushing towa
Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news morning news. First, meteorologis t kaj omara has your first plan on a day just like yesterday with high in the 80s and scattered thunderstorms roaming around the region. Some folks will see some downpours again, while others will see nothing. Once this front sinks to the south later tonight, rain chances are over until late sunday as a big, blocking ridge of High Pressure expands southward over the area. This is in response to a Tropical Storm that should move into florida later this week. There is still potential for this to become a hurricane as well. Regardless there, our weather should be great with highs mainly in the 70s from wednesday through saturday. Today chance of storms. Partly sunny. Wind light. High 82 tonight storms early, then partly cloudy. Wind nw 510. Low 62 tomorrow mostly sunny and less humid. Wind ne 515. High 79 tom. Night clear and comfortable. Wind ne 510. Low 56 state lawmakers a
Her bed. Instead it landed near the foot of th bed. And began singeing the sheets and mattress. Nat 52 26, it was burning down all i hear is screaming, she was just screaming. Pat ricias cousin laniece rushed to help. The window is open, the bed is smoking, the whole room is smoky, its like a cocktail bomb went off. Patricia says she handed laniece a shoe. The two then worked to stop the smoldering. The phone starting sparking so when she knocked the phone off the bed it was smoking and i put the towel over the phone to try to pick the phone up but it was still really hot so i left it there and then it started to burn the ground. Just a minute later laniece says she was able to grab the phone. She then took patricia outside. Nat, 51 10, she came in and rescued me. Patricia, whos also 7 months pregnant went to the hospital for breathing difficulties. My baby had to get watched over and monitored. Fire crews responded once the women were out of their home. To make sure nothing else was a