What experts say needs to happen to halt rising drug prices. Only on fox28 news putting dinner back on the dinner table. A time to be themselves. Reporter steps family can make to make sure dis straksz dont get in the way. Does this mascot need to lighten up . This is fox28 news at 9. Yesterdays is tonights river flooding. It has forced ee vauksz. Fayette county Emergency Management tells fox2 news within the hour the turkey river there is expected to crest 3 feet an above the level seen in 2008. And all of that water is headed downstream to he will kay for. Weather first chief meteorologist terry swails joins us now on what to expect in the hours ahead. Situation very closely because the river continues to steadily rise. We are anticipating as far as a crest is kwernd, right now the are current stage is 16. 68 feet but tz expected to rise another 10foot between now and tomorrow morning when the crest is expected at close to 27foot. The all time record in he will indicator is around 27
And i believe that should be morel mill. And abby road, that is right now closed. Bugle and abby roads near elgin remain closed. Well continue to keep you up to date on that. E we are watching a little bit of rain too. Just some very light showers west of the area down to the south and waterloo and scattered showers back tiger woods manchester. Just very light rain a much better chance of rain exists this evening. Well talk about the showers moving in late the and overnight coming up here in about 10 minutes time. Kelly . Thank you, justin. The communities along the river are now feeling optimistic as the water levels are starting to recede. Stephanie johnson has been up there all day long keeping an eye on it for us. We will show you the cautious side of that optimism. Reporter kelly, there are many street closures and sandbags situated. Risen. It has basically taken over the Basketball Court as well as a playground over here. Right now businesses along south main street near here are
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Has your first alert forecast, kaj. And that will limit our high temperatures into the mid 70s as well. This morning, a few isolated showers may also be found in far southern iowa before the showers to our south fizzle out. This front will be a key to our weather later tonight though as storms should quickly become likely. It continues to look like many, if not all Football Games should go dry tonight, but rain should quickly push in right afterwards. This rain should amount to a quarter to a half inch with isolated amounts over one inch possible. Another round of scattered storms will be possible in the afternoon hours, with much of the activity likely waning or moving east by the evening. Sunday looks mainly dry with only isolated showers possible far south. Wind e 510. High 76 tonight scattered thunderstorms developing. Wind e 510. Low 64 tomorrow showers and thunderstorms likely. Wind sw 515. High 77 tom. Night isolated showers and storms. Wind sw 510. Low 65 people in elkader are
Dry. But we have rain moving in late tonight and with us throughout the day tomorrow as welk lets get right into the numbers, our temps have been on the cooling side, in the upper 50s to lower 60s out there. Take a look at flood warnings, those numbers are rising, fayette, clayton county, as well as north and West Building hawk, Butler County and over towards chickasaw county. To fall around he will dorado. Turkey river continues to rise, 20. 6 feet, expected to get to 26. 5 midday today. Is he sister rapids a little bit of cloud cover but the sun is trying to peak through the clouds. 56 waterloo. Monticello 56. The winds are calm, east and north at 6 miles an hour. Predictor tries to move them here. They are going to fall apart. We are going to wait until later in the afternoon and more so evening and overnight. 67 at 9 00. 94 at noon. 76 forecast for you including the weekend run coming up in 10 minutes time, chemly. Flooding remains a top concern for communities in eastern iowa. Las