Leaders. Meanwhile, a trump ally names republican governor digging in over an obscene message he left for a state democrat. I would like to talk to you about my being in a racist [mute]. Thats just the beginning. What started this war of words. Bashedup billionaire. Virgins Richard Branson and his runin with the road. How the daredevil who crossed and setting his sights on space says he was nearly killed by a bicycle. Good saturday morning. We want to thank you for joining us and we do start here with two developing weather stories. Look at the map. Its busy out there in the tropics this morning. Theres a disturbance heading toward florida. Its been getting a lot of attention in the media in recent days. Rob is going to break down how be. Overnight, this, a wave of storms hitting downtown kansas city, missouri, strigerring flash floods. Several people had to be resc rescued. Look at this picture posted by a diner. Flood waters outside, the power out inside and a candlelight dinner ther
Just want to take a minute to show you how severe this flooding was. If i would have been standing in this exact spot on friday, the water would have been up from Central Plumbing all the way back to their dock and that was all sandbags 7 feet high and tonight at 10, hear how the Flood Impacted Businesses along the turkey river. Live in elkader, jordee kalk, kcrg tv cedar rapids and how can we stop it . Parents, Law Enforcement and fed up residents are working on solving those questions right now in redmond park. This comes after numerous shootings in town, some involving minors. Last september this fourteen year old, robert humbles, shot and killed another teen. Humbles bullet hit fifteenyearold Aaron Richardson in the abdomen during a fight between two ri part of town. Humbles pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter among other charges. Kcrg tv nines phil reed was at todays rally for change. The annual stop the violence the man accused of sexually finally transferred to a facility w
High pressure builds in from the northwest. This High Pressure system will control our weather today and much of tomorrow as well. Later on friday night, there is potential for a few showers and thunderstorms, becoming widespread after midnight and into saturday. Hopefully most of this can wait until after football is over. Several lines of storms are possible on saturday, but the overall risk of anything severe is very low at this time. Much of the rain should get out of here by sunday morning leading to a dry second half of the weekend. A tropical system should develop over or near florida next week, which may lead to our weh ttern stalling out r at lst 3 4 days. Stay tun tonight partly cloudy. Patchy g posble. Wind light nw low 56 tomorrow partly sunny and pleasant. An oted shower is poie ine evening high 76 tom. Night scattered understorms developing. Wind e 510. Low 64 anks kaj. Communitsn northeast iowa rain. Anywhere from 4 to more than 8 inches of rain overwhelmed rivers and cr
Sheriffs office says a car crossed the center line on 130th street and crashed with the semi around 8 30 last night. The cars driver died at the scene. Deputies are not releasing that persons name, pending notification of family. As were watching the flooding along the turkey river this hour, a focus is on clermont and elgin in fayette county. After more than a day of rising water, the turkey is cresting kcrgtv9s brea love has been reporting on the flooding all morning and joins us live from fayette county. Brea, what are you seeing out there right now . Chris, im standing at skip a way the resort its an rv camp ground thats been evacuated. Pretty much everything is gone except a couple campers theyre having issues moving. Weve been here since early the water began rising. Now according to Emergency Management the river has crested. Hopefully the water wont get to this area but residents spent a lot of time last night sandbagging just in case. This entire Community Came together to hel
Truth. This is fox28 news although 9. Several inches of overnight rain proved to be too much for northeast iowa rivers. Right now 1 person is dead and many more are picking up the pieces. Fox28 news has Live Team Coverage of the impact of last nights rain. There is a Flooding Risk risk today. Terry swails has more on the tonight the emphasis will be on the far southern and eastern counties where thunderstorms are dppd to role through there over the next couple of hours. We have a flash flood effect for that part of the viewing area. The watch is until 7 00 tomorrow morning. It does not go up to central and Northern Counties. The region hardest hit last night. 8 inches of rain around decorah. North. Down south thunderstorms are working their way across southern and eastern counties. Nothing severe and overall they are moving very quickly. Even though they produced heavy rain it doesnt last very lopg in one location. Maybe a half hour of torrential down poorz and then its over. A heavy l