Downtown cedar rapids from the tnn tower cam. The river is going up swiftly it is expected to crest in about 24 hours at 23 feet. Now from your 24hour news source, this is the kcrgtv9 morning news. Chris thank you for joining us now at 6 01 as so much, of course, of the focus is on the cedar, wapsi and its independence and toward anamosa. Lets start out with kyle. The good part with all this, it wont be terribly active for the next few days. No, it should be very quiet here for the rest of this work week. The only hazard we will have to contend with weatherwise is that we have gusty wind and i will show you that coming up. We have our air temperatures that are pretty decent. If this flood wasnt happening right now, we would be able to enjoy this weather quite ar bit and at least were done with the 50s is where we sit. The high that were going for is around 67 and that occurs around 3 00. And a lot of sunshine here from start to finish. We want to get you the latest numbers at cedar rap
Breezy dayr ahead of us but were calm weatherwise. No rain in place now that the cold front pushed through. Cedar rapids and 50 in dubuque and 51 in waterloo and iowa city and well top out at 67 degrees but at least again were dry. Temperatures going to cool down again through the evening because of the clear skies so we got a decent dry stretch ahead of us here. Well switch it over to ky to talk more about the riv absolutely. Thanks a lot. Were still watching the cedar basin carefully as well as the wapsi and mississippi. The iowa river basin has been Holding Steady and will likely stay that way for the next week or so. Heres what we have in vinton. Its in progress. The crest is in progress right now. The official gauge height is 21. 74 feet. Thats a lot of stream flow there in vinton and it just appears to be cresting now its at. What thatto does is it raises confidence for what happens downstream. Thee cedar river at cedar rapids which is around 18 feet cresting five feet higher at
A good friday morning to you. Craig melvin here. We start this morning by honoring and remembering the people, the family members, the friends, the colleagues that were lost on this day some 19 years ago, september 11, 2001. President trump observing this solemn anniversary in shanksville, pennsylvania, where brave americans on flight 93 said lets roll, stopped another terrorist attack. Vice president mike pence, former Vice President joe biden attended services in new york city. We are also watching this pandemic change the way these services operate and how we remember the victims from that day. Its a stark reflection of the times in which we find ourselves and the crisis that our country is facing right now. We are still seeing 9 11 claim victims all these years later. In fact, the new York City Fire Department Says many of new yorks finest are dying from illnesses connected to that day when the Word Trade Center collapsed. Their bravery, thousands of people we lost, will never be f
Senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. Good morning. The numbers are going in completely the wrong direction and i think that really lays it out that it took almost 100 days to get to a million cases at first and now its just taking two weeks to get a million more cases. Thats right, poppy. I think when you see this map that we have coming up that it will show you sort of why this is happening. Lets take a look at this map. What you are seeing is a sea of orange and dark red. Those are the states that the number of people with covid is going up. The dark red is where theyre going up at an especially fast rate. But in 43 states the number of covid cases is going up. In the yellow states just five of them the numbers are holding steady, in the green states just two of them the numbers are going in the right direction. So in 43 states the numbers are going in the wrong direction. Now lets take a look at just one day. Lets take a look at yesterday. Records set in just one day. Nine
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