has your first alert forecast, kaj... plan on a steady increase in clouds today 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 k 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 storms possible. have a great weekend!today: mostly cloudy. isolated showers possible far south. wind: e 5-10. high: 76 tonight: scattered thunderstorms developing. wind: e 5-10. low: 64 tomorrow: showers and thunderstorms likely. wind: sw 5-15. high: 77 tom. night: isolated showers and storms. watching the rising turkey river this morning. the river is predicted to crest at around 27 feet today, just slightly below the high water mark from the 2008 flood. here is a look at that flooding from 8 years ago. so much attention from the flood of 2008 came along the cedar river and the iowa river. yet the turkey river swamped elkader, reaching a crest of 27.77 feet on june 10, 2008. the high water stuck around for days and recovery took a long time as most of elkader is within four or five blocks of the turkey river. kcrg tv9's brea love is in elkader this morning, watching the turkey river. brea, do you know about what time is the river will reach it's highest point? chris and nicole, the national weather service predicts it will crest 27 feet and about 15 feet above flood stage. today's predicted crest is slightly below the high water mark from the 2008 flood. students and staff in the central community school district were dismissed early yesterday so the city could have more help filling sandbags. businesses along south main street move out of buildings expected to flood. some business owners say they expected parts of the downtown area to lose power last night. so volunteers tried to make sure people are just moved out of the area before that happened. people in the towns say the many people rallied together to put up the walls and it was a team effort. "17:33:38-17:33:48 "they sandbagged to a level to protect it, to 25 feet and f it goes over the levee, it will affect houses, behind the church, us an update on the status of everything later this morning around 10. we'll continue to monitor this situation in elkader and the surrounding towns and work to bring you those updates both on air and online at kcrg.com. in elkader, brea love, kcrg-tv9 news. governor branstad has issued a disaster proclamation in five northeast iowa counties. it's for fayette, howard and winneshiek counties. these counties can now use state money to help with flooding response and recovery efforts. governor branstad and lieutenant governor kim reynolds will tour flood damage in winneshiek county today. they will be in freeport around 9:15. they will then head to the inwood ballroom in spillville around 10:15. and will go to fort atkinson around 11 o'clock. we'll have complete coverage of the governor's visit to northeast iowa, as well as flood today. the coralville food pantry hopes its new location will help it serve more people in need. the new location is at 420 10th avenue, just blocks away from the food pantry's previous location. the new space is about twice as large. staffers say there's now room to simulate a grocery store experience for their clients. they say the pantry is also in an area of town that's easier for people see and access. and staff say it's also relatively easy to "51:07, the only qualification to receive food assistance here is you are a coralville resident and that's it " people can go to the pantry once a week for assistance. the pantry helps about 850 families a year. police say someone with a gun is robbing delivery drivers in coralville. police have responded to four armed robberies at apartment complexes in the last two weeks. they've all been in an area by police believe the robber is a black man, between 18 and 21 years old. they say he wears all black and sometimes has a bandana over his face. a crash near parkersburg has killed an aplington man. the grundy county sheriff's office identified him as daniel lacour. he was 29. the sheriff's office says his car crossed the center line and hit another vehicle head-on at highway 14 and 130th street. lacour died at the scene. the other driver had min inside a polk county home says she may have an idea of what could have caused his death. the bodies of raymond silbaugh, alicia arpy and a dog were found in a home between des moines and ankeny. raymond's sister, tabitha, asked police to check on her brother tuesday because she hadn't heard from him for several days. the cause of death is still under investigation, but she believes carbon monoxide from a generator that was found inside his home killed them. investigators say it could death. a task force is making its final recommendati ons toward raising the minimum wage in polk county. the task force recommends the county raise the wage to 8- dollars-75 cents next year... ...9-75 the following year and reach 10- dollars-75-cents an hour by 20-19. the task force also recommends a youth wage for workers between 14 and 17 to make 85-percent of the minimum wage. "you know we can mount campaigns to fill food banks, and food pantries, we do all of this, with great patting on the ba don't have to go to food pantries or food banks..." polk county supervisors are expected to get a draft of the new ordinance in october. iowa city's mayor wants to draw a clearer vision for the future of downtown development. mayor jim throgmorton recently them to consider changing guidelines on new downtown buildings. that's after the council voted to not provide financial support for a 14-story building at the site of the old van patton house, which burned down in a fire. that decision led some to think the council is no longer in favor of large scale projects in the downtown area. "we actually have a vision that is expressed in our comprehensive plan, it's the downtown portion of the comprehensive plan, so one of the things i sought to do in that memo is just draw people's attention to that plan, and say okay, now what? we need tools to achieve that vision. " council to reconsider zoning rules that currently allow any-size building in the downtown. people sampled the many different types of food found in iowa city. the city's downtown district held the 10th annual taste of iowa city last night. it featured more than 40 restaurants. organizers say it all started as a way to introduce new university of iowa students to the local restaurants. but the classroom is a little different from basic training. that's why some military veterans now enrolled at the university of dubuque have some adjustments to make. plan on a steady increase in temperatures into the mid- 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 shl 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 storms possible. have a great weekend! today: mostly cloudy. isolated showers possible far south. wind: e 5-10. high: 76 tonight: scattered thunderstorms developing. thunderstorms likely. wind: sw 5-15. high: 77 tom. night: isolated showers and storms. wind: sw 5-10. low: 65 thanks kaj. plan on a steady increase in clouds today 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 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 storms possible. have isolated showers possible far south. wind: e 5-10. high: 76 tonight: scattered thunderstorms developing. wind: e 5-10. low: 64 tomorrow: showers and thunderstorms likely. wind: sw 5-15. high: 77 tom. night: isolated showers and storms. wind: sw 5-10. low: 65 sitting in classrooms at the university of dubuque. not only is that an adjustment for the school, but it's also a big change for those previous members of the military. more than 130 veterans are now enrolled through the g-i bill at the university. christopher clark-smith is veteran of both the the air-force and the iowa national guard. he's now 36 and studying with students half his age. "it's totally different between college and military. the structure. cl it or you don't do it. no one is technically forcing you to do it. . " the university of dubuque has a veterans resource center to help students like clark- smith. staff provides student veterans academic and mental health support. friday night lights live is tonight. the west delaware hawks take on the independence mustangs. our coverage starts at 7:30 on kcrg 9.2 and kcrg.com. and don't forget about after the game, zip over to friday night lights end zone highlights plus our expert analysis and the occasional bad pun... the u.s. dairy industry is struggling. since last year, dairy prices have gone down about 35 percent. why the u-s-d-a is stepping next in our agribusiness report. there are about two hundred 10 thousand milk cows.. however.. the u-s dairy industry is struggling.. prices are down an average of 35 percent.. so the u-s-d-a announced this week it would help out farmers by buying 11 million pounds of cheese out of private inventories. and pantries across the u- s.. secretary tom vilsack says he did the best he could with budget constraints. "they've been able to establish that the amount of cheese that we currently have in stock is the highest level of surplus we've had in cheese in 30 years. so it stands to reason that we're looking at prices that need a little help. and it stands to reason that we need to provide some help and assistance." vilsack also announced the margin protection program for dairy signup iowa dairy farmer larry shover says will help out.. about as much as the cheese purchase.. shover says iowa will probably produce five million pounds of milk this year.. about five hundred and 80 thousand gallons.. and the lower prices means iowa dairy farmers will lose about 250 million dollars.. on his farm it's worse than average.. prices are 48 percent less.. in october of 2014.. he got about two dollars 23 cents a gallon.. by may of this year.. it was a dollar 17 a does to the bottom lines in the profit scenario, trying to pay the bills on these family dairy farms in iowa." in 2015.. there were 1330 dairy farms in iowa.. this year there's 1268.. shover says they lose 50 to a hundred farms a year.. a problem here is there's a shortage of processors to boost the prices.. he says those prices need to go up in a hurry. "if we don't raise this price we are losing dairy farms. we're losing them even if we had the higher prices. as people get older the younger ne shover says the biggest thing to boost the iowa dairy industry would be.. just to buy more milk products ---- and that's all i have for the show today.. thanks for tuning in.. i hope to see you again next time! ---- and that's all i have for the show today.. thanks for tuning post a video every day in the agriculture section of kcrg.com. i'm david geiger with the agribusiness report. trt oc: catch a fish, you have to hold it when taking the picture? well, maybe not everyone plays by those rules. like this young man, who kept that fish a safe distance away. stay with tv9. it's ---. plan on a steady increase in 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 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 storms possible. have a great isolated showers possible far south. wind: e 5-10. high: 76 tonight: scattered thunderstorms developing. wind: e 5-10. low: 64 tomorrow: showers and thunderstorms likely. wind: sw 5-15. high: 77 tom. night: isolated showers and storms. wind: sw 5-10. low: 65 the idea of different strokes in this week's john campbell's big ol' fish, some found success at a secret pond the secret fishing hole paid off again for brenda labarge. nice bass. another hog. luaryn johnson of monona caught it at volga lake. carson shakespeare and his sister combined for this stringer. miles and will stastny of cr obviously got into northerns at lake mille lacs. ethan miller really likes fishing the wapsi river near olin. so does his brother ian. perseverance paid off for jase schaldecker of cr. next up is ellis gongwer who netted the big cat in ely. young henry elin got into the fish while fishing with pa braxton james lee baines. super cat. with all my fishing friends, this is john campbell reporting. you probably didn't know the category even existed. the guinness book of world records gave austin keller a certification this month for the fastest 20 meter crab walk. his time-- 6.11 seconds, beating the previous record by a full second. a man in tokyo previously held the record. keller, the 5 sport athlete from b-g-m high school in brooklyn, says he didn't train before he made his record breaking attempt. floodwaters continue to rise at a rapid pace this morning. the river is predicted to crest in elkader today. with the water expected to get close to record levels, volunteers spent hours yesterday stacking sand bags to protect the city. stay with your 24 hour news source, kcrg-tv9. it's this is kcrg-tv9 news early morning news. water is rising and the city of elkader hopes it is prepared. we'll have more on the current conditions in a live report. the salvation army from cedar rapids is helping flood victims in northeast iowa. volunteers say soe to sympathize. kennedy high school's principal hopes students will use the designated crosswalks this morning. yesterday a car hit a student running across the street. good friday morning! it's 530 on august 26th. here is a live look at . first, meteorologis t kaj o'mara plan on a steady increase in clouds today 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 th 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 storms possible. have a great weekend!today: mostly cloudy. isolated showers possible far south. wind: e 5-10. high: 76 tonight: scattered thunderstorms developing. wind: e 5-10. low: 64 tomorrow: tom. night: isolated showers and storms. wind: sw 5-10. low: 65 thanks kaj. right now major flooding is hitting some northeast iowa -- yesterday in fayette county. now the high water moves downstream into clayton county. you just saw video from clermont where people voluntarily evacuated some homes, other buildings, and even r-vs. this morning, that floodwater is now heading toward elgin and further east...to elkader. people in elkader are preparing for the turkey river to potentially rise to its record 2008 flood level. the national weather service predicts it will reach that mark around 1 this afternoon. back in june of 2008 when the turkey river crested at 27 point 77 feet -- a record there for the river. the high water lingered for days before finally pulling back -- revealing damage that took years of recovery. kcrg tv9's brea love is in elkader this morning. brea, what is the river expected to reach today? chris and nicole, the turkey river is predicted to crest at 27 feet in elkader today. that's just slightly below the mark from the 2008 flood. the national weather service predicts it will reach that mark around 1 this afternoon. students and staff in the central community school district were dismissed early yesterday so the city could have more help filling sandbags. volunteers also helped businesses along south main street move out of buildings expected to flood. some business owners say they expected parts of the downtown area to lose power last night. so volunteers tried to make sure people are just moved out of the area before that happened. people just showing up asking if they could help " o'clock today. we'll continue to monitor this situation in elkader and the surrounding towns and work to bring you those updates both on air and online at kcrg.com. in elkader, brea love, kcrg-tv9 news. are preparing for the worst...if the water goes over the dike in elgin. in clermont, fast running water swept this porch away. fayette county sheriff marty fisher told kcrg tv9 that red cross volunteers have opened a shelter at the valley community school district in between clermont and elgin. the sheriff says neighbors and high school students were out placing sandbags in governor branstad has issued a disaster proclamation for five northeast iowa counties. it's for flooding in allamakee, clayton, fayette, howard and winneshiek counties. these counties can now use state money to help with flooding response and recovery efforts. governor branstad and lieutenant governor kim reynolds will tour flood damage in winneshiek county today. they will be in freeport around 9:15. they will then head to the inwood ballroom in spillville around 10:15. and will go to fort atkinson coverage of the governor's visit to northeast iowa, as well as flood recovery efforts, on-air and online today. the cedar rapids salvation army has set up in spillville to help flood victims. army staff working from the parking lot of the citizens savings bank have been serving hot meals. major paul logan told us some people just want someone to listen to them during this tough time. "some just want to talk and just share what their experience is, and what they're going through. so that's always a good able to encourage them. just to let them know that there's somebody else that cares about them."" the salvation army will be in the parking lot of the bank in spillville through the weekend. a waterloo man ran out onto his roof trying to escape police this morning. police surrounded a two story house at 303 locust inside the house. officials say he was wanted on several warrants. other charges are pending. we have an update on a story we reported last week. the city of coralville will not put down a dog that bit a woman. but the owner will not be getting the dog back. the dog, roman, is an 18 month old beauceron . the decision to let him live came after the owner, tom henson, agreed to micro-chipping and neutering the dog. then the dog will undergo training in north carolina. girl to uihc with serious injuries after cedar rapids police say a car hit her while she was walking to school. it happened on 42nd street northeast. the student goes to kennedy high school. this is the car that hit the girl yesterday morning around 7-30. the impact broke the windshield. the driver isn't facing any charges for the crash, but police did issue a ticket for an expired license plate. investigators believe the driver was going about 20 miles per hour, which is below the posted speed limit in put out an e- mail message to all kennedy families reminding everyone to use extreme caution on 42nd street and wenig road. he also urged all students to use the crosswalks instead of cutting across the streets. one woman says there were almost two accidents in the same spot yesterday morning. lucy jackson says she was driving through the same area when a different student walked in front of her car, not looking for traffic. " i was going slow enough and paying attention i stopped short was so close it made me uncomfortable." both police and drivers who use this road say students taking a short cut through traffic is a problem. the student injured yesterday morning crossed the street about 30 yards from a crosswalk. a pharmaceutic al company criticized for dramatically increasing the price of epipens is trying to make it up to customers. but that doesn't mean they are planning to clouds today 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 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 mainly dry with only isolated storms possible. have a great weekend! today: mostly cloudy. isolated showers possible far south. wind: e 5-10. high: 76 tonight: scattered thunderstorms developing. wind: e 5-10. low: 64 tomorrow: showers and thunderstorms likely. wind: sw 5-15. high: 77 tom. night: isolated showers and storms. wind: sw 5-10. low: 65 thanks kaj. plan on a steady incre 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 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 storms possible. have a great weekend! today: mostly cloudy. isolated showers possible far south. wind: e 5-10. high: 76 tonight: scattered thunderstorms developing. wind: e 5-10. low: 64 tomorrow: showers and thunderstorms likely. wind: isolated showers and storms. wind: sw 5-10. low: 65 turkey river rising in elkader this morning. right now, it is expected to crest at 26.5 feet today around noon or 1 o'clock. in 2008, the highest on record than that, but definitely still significant. amazon is soon launching a new website car. you won't be able to buy the car through amazon, but you can find out pretty much all you need to know. stay with your 24 hour news source, kcrg stocks closed lower on thursday - declines in health-care companies steered trading. investors are worried about a backlash in recent price increases for key drugs. pharmaceutical company mylan says it will offer discounts on its epipen. this follows the backlash over the company's sharp price increases. the company will offer coupons covering up to $300 dollars for patients in health plans who would face higher price. shares of the company have fallen 10% this week. amazon will offer a new site where you can find information about new and used cars. the site will compete with established players in the field like edmunds.com and cars.com. the site won't sell cars, but will supply car specifications, images, videos and customer reviews, and will allow customers to ask questions. it's here's a live look at on clouds today and that will limit our high temperatures into the mid- 70s as well. this morning, a few isolated showers may 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 waning or moving east by the evening. sunday looks mainly dry with only isolated storms possible. have a great weekend!today: mostly cloudy. isolated showers possible far south. wind: e 5-10. high: 76 tonight: scattered thunderstorms developing. wind: e 5-10. low: 64 tomorrow: showers and thunderstorms likely. wind: sw 5-15. high: 77 tom. night: isolated showers and storms. wind: sw 5-10. low: 65 thanks kaj. trt oc muscatine. scott westerberg has the highlights. a big early test for kennedy and muscatine came to play as alphonso soko fights his way across the goal line. 15-0 peyton mccarty over the middle for the 76 yard touchdown as kennedy gets on the board in the second quarter. more from duehr, this time he hits carter krall in the end zone. game tied at 15. how about another touchdown pass from duehr. he finds mccarty again. cougars grab a 22-15 lead. then alex stone drills a 26 yard field goal as kennedy scores 25 unanswered points in the second quarter. but the third, kennedy up 25-22, soko fields the punt at his own 16...finds a hole up the middle. soko gets a huge block and then breaks free from duehr. soko with a 76 yard punt return for the go- ahead touchdown as muscatine beats kennedy 29-25. from cedar rapids, scott westerberg tv9 sports. we are in week two of our athlete of the week segment sponsored by cedar rapids toyota. tonight we feature our baseball prairie senior short stop cal clark had a dream season for the hawks.. clark led prairie with a 448 batting average including some big hits in the state title game to help the hawks beat iowa city west 12-3 for their first state baseball championship in school history. is really fun just to win the substate finally make it to state and then once we went on the run at state i just kind of an added bonus everything it was really cool to bring a state championship to the school do you know if they throw before you go up there i know a lot of the big-name guys like vanscoy austin miller those guys i know they're probably going to try to work me a little off speed but other than that see ball that is what i go up their thinking your strengthenin g the fastball i would say so but if they throw me off speed i can usually make a good adjustment and get a good swing on it. 448 batting average you hit all the great pitchers we are going to see if you can hit me. i have a brand new aow vehicle made out to scare cal warming up and i came with the ephas pitch and try to throw him off but he didnt byte.. and then i came with the heat on the fast ball but i could feel something pop in my shoulder.. so westerberg who was a high school pitcher came on in releif and he got cal to pop and he almost chased it down.. but he is not as quick as he used to be.. and then westerberg hung a curve center and it was over.. time to polish our brand new chrome athlete of the week rav 4 from our great sponsor cedar rapids toyota.. it looked so good cal could checkout his finally quaffed hair. we are now taking nominations for our fall sports at kcrg.com and we will start those features next thursday. back in her hometown of dubuque. tonight, hundreds of people packed the courtside restaurant. she signed autographs, took pictures, did a q & a and the mayor officially declared august 25th, kayla banwarth day. she says winning a medal in the olympics was an amazing experience. "i'm extremely proud to bring back a medal. the people here have been so amazing and so supportive, that for me to be able to bring some hardware for them; i'm super proud. it was an honor to represent dubuque. i took great pride in dubuque and in iowa and thewhole country that are inspired to greatness." trt : 21 oc: "inspired to greatness" the kernels had their brooms out trying to pull off the sweep against the river bandits. and they got off to a fast start.. travis blankenhorn with the two rbi triple into the gap in left center for the 2-nothing first inning lead.. and that was plenty for kernels starter locklon wells who went 6 innings giving up just 1 hit in the kernels win. and finally former solon and field goal for the dolphins tonight against the falcons in a switch to u.s. cellular and get 50% off smartphones. it's a deal you don't want to miss. sir, hi. did you just say, "switch and you get 50% off a smartphone?" uh, yes. sorry. hi. hello. i was watching tv and i saw you say 50% off smartphones. and we'll cover all switching costs. oh! wow! also, you g... uh, excuse me. switch to u.s. cellular and get 50% off smartphones. plus, we'll cover all switching costs. excuse me, can i just... hmm? what? i just need it back. yeah. starting with a live look at the turkey river in elkader. the river is expected to crest there at about 1 p-m -- a little short of the 2008 record crest. "and i was like anything to help out my community, i'll help. " dozens of volunteers helped build a wall of sandbags in elkader in preparation for today's crest. governor branstad has issued a disaster counties in northeast iowa. today, he plans to visit cities with flooding. a 15-year-old cedar rapids girl has serious injuries after a car hit her in front of kennedy high school. police did not ask for charges against the driver for the crash. republican presidential nominee donald trump plans to attend an event for joni ernst event tomorrow in des moines. democratic nominee hillary clinton is criticizing trump for trying to incite racism. you're watching kcrg-tv9. now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrg-tv9 news

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