More money, fewer problems. Thats what the cedar rapi Community School district wants lawmakerin des moines to understand. Cbs 2 news back from speaking with School Leaders and she joins us live from the newsroom, dora, what did you hear . Sincnccedar rapids Community School district is the second largest district in iowa. School officials want the resources to back that up. Up. The district released a budget at a glance worksheet that shows how much funding ey need to maintain staffing and rvices, compared with how much money the governor has proposed. It states that while student enrollment has remained steady, the district has fewer staff than they did five years ago. According to ththreport, the district would need a 3. 72 percent increase in funding to keep running at the same level. The governor is only proposing a 2. 5 percent increase. And the house theyve only recommended a two percent crease. In a Perfect World district would get more money kids. We want great learning enviro
Interesting story. We will have more coming up in just a minute. But first ive got kyla, meisha, surrounded by beauty. Youve got some good news for us, right. Yes, thursday before Labor Day Weekend you never know what you will get in terms of the traffic. It will be busy or slow. Today it is looking nice. That is great for our viewers. Offer night construction project, they are all lift nothing like ten minutes. Great, hello. I got a little mixed bag. We have some heat to deal with yet again today. But then we have a break in the heat coming and much better for weekend. Lets get to it. We are in the fifth heat wave of the year. One in june, two in july, and two in august. The guess what, this one is, today, people. This is going to be the end have of it. Look at storm scan three we are nice and clear but as i zoom outlook at what is happening to the north and west. Some showers, that is an indication of the stormy wets head of the cold front that will come in and knock this heat out, y
Is true. We will talk about that coming up plus your fantastic weekend. We want to throw that in. We will talk bit all in the seven day forecast. Sound good, great for the kid. It will be warm for them out at recess. Good morning. Happy thursday to you. Still dark outside, still very early but i can tell you roads are looking good. Overnight Construction Projects are being lifted very quickly actually. Heres the schuylkill eastbound past montgomery, you can see a steady stream, starting to hit roadway and it will be a busy morning. Right before labor day, everyone trying to get that last day in. People taking off on friday. Heres the roosevelt boulevard southbound approaching the schuylkill. We know when you jump on the schuylkill there and head westbound around city avenue it gets busy, very early but right now it is looking pretty good. Very good. Very quiet. Heres the vine to and from the schuylkill looking very good, quiet there as well. This is an area with construction i95 north
Sunshine will take over. Limited fog in interior new jersey. Wont be near as widespread as what we saw yesterday. With the fog out of the way, the temperatures will warm up quickly. 75 degrees at 6 00. By 9 00, 81. Then it will be at 90 degrees at lunch time. Your neighborhoodbyneighborhood forecast when im back in ten. Right now Jessica Boyington is standing by with your first alert traffic. 295 in new jersey right now checking out one of the activity work zones right here. This is right around the black horse pike. You can see on the southbound side over here we have some active crews in the area. They do have some lane restrictions but that has been something that has been around for quite sometime. You can see traffic moving along in the area. We are losing a shoulder and one of the lanes but a 13minute drive time headed southbound from 38 up towards this point of the black horse pike. Northbound the same story. Work zones over on the right hand shoulder. Just watch out for that bu
Clouds mixing in. Overall well go partly sunny today. There might be patchy fog here and there, be careful of that in the suburbs. Mid 70s down the shore. Farther south you go the more humid it is we have dewpoints in the oppressive area dover and cape may, really muggy there, not as bad in philadelphia. 75 degrees by 8 00 a. M. Noon, 89. This afternoon were cooking again, 94 by 3 00 p. M. Holding the low 90s by dinnertime. Things get better heat wise tomorrow, and the humidity drops off for the Holiday Weekend. Karen youve got a jammer there. Reporter look at this backup, i95 jammed approaching cottman to the betsy ross bridge already a 29 minute ride from woodhaven to the vine because of the accident approaching the betsy ross bridge it was blocking the right lane, they have pushed it off to the shoulder. What a big back just backup on i95 southbound. Its not the only problem on i95. Two issues, that was southbound. We have a northbound problem, as well. I95 northbound at girard. You