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Has your first alert forecast, kaj. Today will be fantastic as highs rise into the middle to upper 70s. The continued lack of mugginess will also be nice. This weekend, High Pressure is a lock and will keep the upcoming weekend quiet with moderating temperatures into the 80s for sunday and especially labor day. Next week, our weather should trend a little more active with thunderstorms possible on tuesday and wednesday. Have a great weekend toda y mostly sunny, high around 77. Tonight clear, low around 54. Tomorrow mostly sunny, high around 79. Thanks kaj. A 58 year old cedar rapids man has life threatening injuries this morning from a crash with a deer on his motorcycle. Paramedics lewis access road and Cedar Heights trail Near Center Point around 130. Officials say the driver, michael long, wasnt wearing a helmet. Floridas governor is asking people in his state to evacuate this morning. But many are staying put and have decided to weather hermine. Abcs Adrienne Bankert reports, its t
Activity around the area today. While nothing heavy is expected, there is a possibility that a few locations will exceed a half inch of rain. This cold front plus the clouds, should keep highs in the upper 60s to lower 70s today. Tonight, expect showers to rapidly dissipate as the heating of the day is lost and the front shifts southeast. Clearing sky after midnight should allow for upper 40s to push in over the northern half of the area with lower 50s elsewhere. Wednesday will be spectacular with sunshine and highs into the lower 70s. Have a great day today mostly cloudy with scattered showers and a few storms. Wind nw 510. High 73 tonight chance of showers, mainly early. Wind n 510. Low 52 tomorrow mostly sunny and pleasant. Wind n 510. High 72 tom. Night mostly clear. Wind e 510. Low 55 thanks kaj. Police were responding to a domestic disturbance on the citys northwest side. They went to valley high apartments at 1735 edgewood road nw at 9 30 last night. Police did not offer many de
Hiring more troopers is now. 267 is low, i would like to see a lot more, but every director of a state police would like to see more officers. Van berkum says the patrol is planning an advertisement blitz to attract candidates to a Law Enforcement academy next year. Where he hopes to see a graduating class of up to 25 new troopers something he hopes to start doing annually. Our goal is every year, and hopefully do it in the springtime, graduating, thats when high schools are getting out, that way people will know that Law Enforcement is holding an academy, so they can prepare their resumes knowing that we are going to have an academy. Right now there are also more drivers on iowas roads than ever before. Data from the Iowa Department of transportatio n shows the number of licensed drivers in iowa increased by 466thousand in the past ten years, to more than 2point2 million drivers. Conrad says its obvious commute making the need to hire more troopers, especially here in eastern iowa, mo
Itll be about five degrees warmer, though. Showers and a few thunderstorm s arrive tomorrow night into friday, winding down late friday evening into friday night. The weekend looks like another winner with sunshine and highs in the 70s. Seasonable 70s continue straight into next week. Today turning mostly sunny. Pleasant. Wind ne 510. High 72 alo 71 dbq 71 iow 73 tonight mostly clear. Wind e 1 w 56 alo 55 dbq 54 w 56 a. Snowden wants president obama to pardon him and allow his safe return to the states. Hes lived in russia since 2013. Snowden gave an interview shortly before the film about him hit theaters. Andrew spencer has the latest. Seem to be softening his stance on snowden. When asked if theres a chance the president would pardon the nsa whistleblower, White House Press secretary josh earnest responded like this the fact is the manner in which mr. Snowden chose to disclose this information damaged the United States, harmed our national security, and put the American People at gr