Catastrophically powerful wind right now and lets bring in nbc meteorologist bill karins with a look at where it is now and where its headed. Good morning, ibm. Overnight we had land fall, 165 mile per hour wind. The island of dominica was literally smack on right in the middle of the eye. So, add that to barbuda and other islands that have been devastated this hurricane season. They are going to need a lot of help. And then deflected a little to the north and the southern end of guadalupe got hit hard. Now the storm is starting to move away from the islands. The islands do have mountains. It did weaken it slightly down to 155, thats why its a cat 4 now, not a cat 5. Still extremely dangerous. It could fluctuate between a cat 4 and cat 5 between now and when it gets to puerto rico. It has it going over the east of puerto rico to st. Croix. That could be wednesday at 8 00 a. M. Thats 24 hours or so from now that that storm maria will be doing the devastation over portions of eastern pue
Rains as well. Coming up ill let you know how long these storms will linger into the evening and i have news of a bigger cool down coming for tomorrow. Ill be back in just a few minutes. Sounds good dave. Developing tonight. The train to the airport is stopped in its track for the second day in a row. Electric power issues have passengers taking a detour by bus. This outage has now passed seven hours. Thats certainly delaying passengers getting to and from the dia. The problem is with the r line between the 61st and pena station and the terminal at dia. Rick sellinger at that station. Any progress yet . Im afraid not. The trains here are as far as they go at the moment. The passengers get off the train and then they have to get on buses to complete their journey. That may not sound like a big deal. But those that have to go to dia daily, it can be a major inconvenience for them. Their living at d. I. A. The train was supposed to be a godsend. Was it . A line has being nothing but a nig
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Instrument rental fees. Instruments of all kinds were donated including guitars, trumpets and a clarinet. Donations can be made year round. But. Every valentines day, the conservatory asks the community for more donations with the sentimenthave a heart for music. Since people found out about the event, its not just a one day only event it kind of continuously goes on and people can contact us and drop stuff off any time. Um. We probably had a dozen instruments donated this season, yeah. So its a. Some of them have been given away already you know. Its just kind of an onging process here at the conservatory. This is the conservatorys fifth annual have a heart for music donation drive. The conservatory is a Nonprofit Organization that encourages basic Music Education throughout the midwest. Jess the peter goatee memorial als benefit concert is going on tomorrow over at the Hard Rock Hotel and casino. The event is from 2 00 to 8 00 pm. Four of local bands will be performing. You must be 2
Person who opened fire, as the officer responded to a call. Police were checking out a drug complaint at a Holiday Inn Hotel around 4 00 this morning. A Police Spokesman says an armed suspect fired a gun at a responding officer who returned fire, hitting the suspect. That person later died. The Police Officer was not hurt. Two women who were at the scene of the shooting ran away from the scene. Police later took them into custody. Remember whenever you see news, give us a call on newsline 9. That number is 3193659999. You can also send us pictures and vid to newsroom at kcrg dot com. Hellng veterans and theiei families overcome obstacles. Thats the goal of one Nonprofit Group hosting a fundraiser in waterloo this evening. Thats where we find kcrg tv9s sarah mccarthy. Sarah, this group is called americans for brady, this is a b bnd new organization thats s king it their mission to help disabled veterans. They plan to do that by modifying homes to make everything as accessible as possibl