Washington and iowa back to the east. This will expand as we go through the evening hours tonight. By the time this system moves out, many of the southern counties will see about a half inch of rain. Along and north of highway 20, 12 inches of rain are a good bet. Tomorrow will not be a great day. Temperatures will remain cool and we will have showers in the morning befo later in the afternoon. We will start another warm up by the end of the week and we have 70s talk about. Stick around for that. Businesses that have sandbags after the flood will not face fines. Reporter right now, there are only two free drop but sites left drop off sites left. There are Community Solutions that are working for other solutions for sandbags left behind. We reached out to the city and its economic partners. Today the city of cedar rapids and the Economic Alliance says there are few businesses left with sandbags and they still highly encourage them to take them to free drop off sites. Earlier, indication
Home happy. More than 500 petition signatures later and the proposed Crestwood Apartment complex failed to pass City Councils vote. Tonight. More than 500 petition signatures later in the city council failed to pass the proposal for qwest word apartments. Inside the Council Chambers standing room only as some of the main issues were revisited in the case of why this complex should remain just an idea. Potential neighbors had the project that would sit on edgewood road say concerned about traffic issues in the area. Sewer runoff and one major issue school capacity. People who support the projects they it is less about the aesthetic value of the three story complex. They say helping the Homeless Population is far more important. Because of the supporting housing my mother could afford and provide us food. Without shelter Everything Else falls apart. People bought houses in certain schools. There must be other appropriate places than cedar rapids. Not the right fit, thats what we heard. M
Lower 70s. By wednesday, pain returns to the forecast and in the southern counties it looks like there could be rain. We start tomorrow with 55 degrees at 6 00 a. M. And by tomorrow afternoon we will be above 70 degrees. We should have rain by wednesday afternoon. The national Highway Traffic Safety Administration has recommended that school buses have seatbelts. One School District decided to take action. Steffi lee is with one district equipped with lap and shoulder seatbelts. Students from several schools using this one bus will have to wear seatbelts as part of a study by des moines public schools. Director of transportation todd liston says while the national Highway Traffic Safety Administration suggests all school buses have seatbelts sot todd liston, 09 46 06 18 theres not a lot of real data about just how one thing the school will be looking for in its study is how students respond to having to put a seatbelt on. Sot todd liston, 09 46 31 29 as they get in sit down, buckle up
A couple of sharing a story about how bad it could be. They are on the mend after a has the bag full of treatments as they tried everything to stop the horrible rash. Rash. Because we thought it was poison ivy to begin with. She and fiance Curtis Prescott were pulling weeds like these at an apartment complex the week before and an emergency room doctor agreed probably just poison ivy then two days later it exploded exploded it looked like a chemical burn on his body. I was just down here pulling its the painful story dermatologists have been hearing all summer red sores burning blisters and misery as they come in contact with wild parsnip. How much how much of you. 85 a good 85 of my body. He had two rashes was covered. The toxic plant can be found homes and apartments. Apartments. And so hes down in these weeds and walking around. And it looks just like a non hazzardous flower. And its just terrible the itching is unbelievable. With fall yard work underway they want all of us to be aw
For the commute in the corridor, there could be spots of fog around. Not as widespread as this morning. Temperatures generally in the upper 30s. We will have dry air and sunshine and be close to 70 for the High Temperature tomorrow. That leads us to the weekend with some great weather. We will have details for saturday and sunday coming up. Yesterday was a day filled with hard eight for the cities of des moines and urbandale. In their squad cars. A man shot Anthony Tony Beminio and Justin Martin with without warning when they were in their squad cars. Scott Michael Greene is in custody. Kevin barry is in the newsroom with the latest. Reporter the latest information we have so far is that scott Michael Greene has been charged with two counts of firstdegree murder for killing the sergeant. And the urbandale officer. Police in part of their manhunt yesterday found the truck that they believed belonged to scott Michael Greene. They found the gun that they believed that greene used. They fo