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 23 feet Tuesday Morning. Here are the next four impacts and what weu can expect and this will be true over the next two to three hoursco and once it surpasses 20, wee will keep updating you with this. You will see it affect the lower section especially right now. Affected and 23 feet it reaches the 3rd avenue bridge in downtown. Were watching the wapsi inen a most sa and the Mississippi River at dubuque in progress, slow progress. It crests at the very end of this work week. You may have just heard a ding on your phone or maybe a vibration on your mobile device. We just pushed an alert to you. With all of these river stages that we just pushed to air we can keep you updated during this flood event and you can bet it will go to your mobile device. Chris, back over to you. Thank you. While it was not a mandatory evacuation, plenty of people in cedar rapids are out of their homes for six days. It affected homes and businesses and several neighborhoods along the cedar riverr thes city is seght up dozens of check. Arnsd the evacuation zone. Police told tv 9 they had larger presence around the evacuated areas and theres a curfew in place for the evacuation zone from 8 00 p. M. Until 7 00 a. M. Throughout the week. Kcrgtv9 is on the west side ander foaser sounders and what are you seeing at this hour of . Well, let me show it to you here, chris. There isnt much going on. You look at the road closed sign and this is a common thing that youll see when zone. Po these road closed signs are all the way up and down 19th avenue which is where were standing right now. Southeast of the Czech Village by a little bit, and the evacuation zone right now doesnt actually have any of those checkpoints. Those will be set up later today after talking with authorities. Theyre waiting for the National Guard to be on hand, about 400 National Guardsmen are headed to this area. Theyre going to help local authorities set up checkpoints in the checkpoints across the evacuation zone. Were hearing that additional officers are on hand right now to be inside of the evacuation zone. Theyre there to protect property, homes, businesses from any kind of looting or any kind of criminal activity. Good news. We talked with authorities earlier today. They told us they havent seen any signs of any of that and those extra officers are on hand, again to prevent it. On how theyre going to work from authorities and we might hear more of that at a 10 00 a. M. Press conference which the city set up and were waiting here more chris, back to you. Chris thank you for the live update. Taking a live look at downtown from up top. Cedar river is going up. As ky mentioned, its at 18 feet. It is expected to go up five more feet before it is expected to crest on Tuesday Morning. Heres what the expected cresto will look level of 23 feet. You can see for downtown water is expected to cover several city blocks and it shows them close to the Railroad Tracks between 3rd and 5th streets. We have been updated all morning. Brea joins us live. Shes on the east side of the river. Ed tell us what it looks like right now. Reporter chris, were outside of the motte building and you can look at at. The cedar river is rising fast. 4 30rbgs i put a blue marker and im sure you cant see it because its pretty dark out there. The river has moved about four inches in 30 minutes and i talked to a Police Officer who was down here and he told me he was driving on this area. This is a street down here. He was driving at 2 00 this morning. That was two hours ago. That kind of explains how fast this water is moving now. Werer outside of the motte building and theres a lot of sandballings and we have them all over town. Weve been talking Massive Community effort to get everythingr prepared. Soy hopefully all of those will hold up through our next 24 hours were expecting that crest tomorrow morning. Sometime around this time tomorrow. Make sure you stay safe. There is a curfew. Youre not allowed in this area. We had a Police Escort down here. Youre not allowed to be down here. Stay out of here. Theres a lot of roads closed signs and police are at checkpoints. They wont let you through. Stay safe. Stay out of the water and stay here with tv 9 for the rapids, kcrgtv9. Thank you. The inaudible neighborhood is a lowlying area close to the cedar river. Its on the Southeast Side of the city. It lies south of otis road and blakely boulevard. Neighbors and some volunteersc from a Cedar Rapids Church spent hours on sunday to tryva to help others to evacuate the roompot area. Theresl some concern roompot is one the first parts of the city that flooded back in 2008. I had the chance to meet margiel simms who was not here eight years ago and you she heard about the threat ofb flooding this neighborhood, all these people who lived down here a long time. Im kind of a newbie, its really, really nice. Everybody is taking care of everybody. Simms says she did not think she would be able to save as much as she did from further upstream are not following the orders to evacuate. They will not be forced out but if they evacuate, they may not get backa in until the danger has passed. Many of the 80 people told to evacuate in southeast palo did live but others chose to stay so they could take care of leaks behind sandbags. They remember exactly how high it got eight years ago and b deducting six or seven feet on the cedar, they could get by without major damage this time. Thatse why im staying. The damage or the water level is notot going to be as high and i dont think the damage will be as bad. We have a better chance this time to save stuff. Another reason that some chose ton stay inside of the evacuation zone as Alliance Energy planned to cut the power in those areas and they will need to keep generators running to pump out any water. Crest point in vinton at this hour. Heres an uptop view of vinton yesterday and the cedar river. This is approaching the Vinton County courthouse. You can see that on the top. We turn east on 3rd street, the Vinton CountySheriffs Office is there on the right and before this drone turns right on highway 150 and starts heading north, youll get another look at this as kcrgtv9 Nicole Griffin reports on the situation in vinton. Reporter w the Vinton County emergency manager they have been overnight as this town continues to prepare for the worst. Becky sloan has lived in this town for 25 years. Her house is right next to hinkle creek which runs into thes cedar river. The water flooded to the siderd of her yard but since her family took precautions after the flood in 2008 like adding a retaining wall, so far, her house has not flooded. After the water recedes, shes looking to haveu been a lot worse but i think the cleanup will not be the best part of this. I think its going to be a lot of trash left over and a lot of wood and debris. Reporter look at this drone video of the town of vinton. It shows you what theyre dealing with, flooded streets, yards and parks causing roads to be shut down in this area. Im standing here on eastburg and first avenue where you can see the impact of these floodwaters. Reporting in vinton, nicole after a building from a flood of 2008, one neighborhood is in danger of flooding once again. Well show you some of the ways that businesses throughout new bell are taking it upon themselves to keep the water out. It is a cool morning, no doubt about that definitely feeling more like fall actually with upper 40s to the mid50s laid out across eastern iowa. Today should be a decent day weatherwise. Windy, and well have we are still monitoring the cedar river basin very carefully here today. In f cresting right now. In fact, around 21. 7 feet. Its actually just a hair higher than that currently. Were hoping we can kind of stop right there its officially 21. 74. Regardless, its a solid second place finish in terms of the crest height. The crest will be right about now and the flooding will come to an end and it will be a slow fall. By about thursday,ee you will see the waters go below vinton, that extrapolates to almost 23 feet for Tuesday Morning. Confidence is high on 23foot forecast crest at cedar rapids. Right now, its at 18. Flooding would come to an end at the end of this week. Youll notice the impabs there on the righthand side of your screen those are primarily the impacts around the crest height but really the next four impacts as the river does continue to rise. At 18 feet, its the lowest section of edgewood road northwest right now. Expect commute tieups right th it affects the lowest residences in palo and the cedar at palo is higher than cedar rapids and it will reach the bridge deck and it reaches the bottom of the third avenue bridge and we anticipate that to happen given the iffoot crest forecast. The wapsi crested at major flood category. Its in progress right now another foot and a half rise in dubuque but it will take all week for that to happen. Expect the mississippi to be elevated actually much of october. It will be questionable when it gets back to below flood stage. Again, takes a long time for thattive arer. As anybody knows along the mississippi, a long time to rise and fall as well. Want you to keep updated with us as this entire flood event continues to occur from the crest upstream that have occurred to the stay connected with us. First alert weather anne app and we have push notifications to send to you every time we get new information and push it to your device and get you connected until the next newscast. Weather is quiet. We are in this blocking pattern finally now that we have dry time to get things done. Your first alert, everything is green. Not a worry in the world quiet outside. Youre looking downtown at the river there rising very quickly. Temperatures are cool this morning. Now that we have the clear skies and the cold front pushing through. Cedar rapids at 50 degrees. Dubuque iso 50. 51 in iowa city and waterloo at 51 degrees. Live first alert pinpoint Doppler Radar. Youre seeing a lot of green and this is ground clutter we are dry in the tv 9 viewing area. Pinpoint i will run through without powerpoints because theres not a lot to show you. All the clouds pushed off to the east along the cold front. We might see a stray passing cloud and thats about it as we go through the day and into the evening and the overnight hours and we start off tomorrow dry as well with a little bit of sunshine. What we do need to talk about are the winds we very breezy conditions behind this cold front. We start off this morning pretty calm. Winds ow out of the west at 5 to 10 Miles Per Hour up. Continue out in the west and pick up to 15 to 25 Miles Per Hour. Starter winds will stay to the north. Into the evening, those winds will die back down to 5 to 15. Heres your first alert forecast for today. Cold conditions with the westerly wind at 15 to 5. Temperatures will top out at 67 and cedar rapids 68 and 66 in waterloo. Mostly sunny and again, very breezy. Around it as well as the west wind at 5 to 15. Down into the 40s, 44 in cedar rapids and 46 and 43 in waterloo. 45 in dubuque. We stay clear for your day tomorrow. Just a few passing clouds topping out at 66 degrees. Wednesday, a few more clouds and were still very cool. Definitely starting to feel like fall and continues for the rest of your week. Also conins is the fact that we are staying dry. We mention that blocking pattern and it stays in tuesday for our next best chance for rain. Make sure to keep it here on tv 9. It is 5 18 and eat vac situation zone is in place for those in the red area with a predicted crest of 23 voluntary evacuation is asking people in the 28foot flood evacuation zone to get out. So this includes nubeau, and much of downtown for when you are looking east and further south closer to the nubeau. They will assist in helping to patrol flood zones. Forest sounders is live in cedar rapids. Hes been in the Czech Village. Forest at this hour, are you its early in the day and were fresh to this. Chris, we have seen officers out patrolling the area. We saw a squad car drive by not too long ago but it is quiet out here and so quiet, you can hear the crickets and you can see behind me there isnt much going on inside the evacuation zone we have road closed signs on all of these different roads that intersect with 19th avenue or a little southeast told that 400 National Guardsmen are on their way to help patrol as well as setting up 75 checkpoints and we want to calls that people concerned about looting inside the evacuation zone. Authorities tell us there are no confirmed reports of that. That isnt happening. Right now, theyre hearing a lot of great things. People are complying with the evacuation and there hasnt been any crime hand, however to patrol this area until those National Guardsmen arrive and again, thats going to happen sometime later today. Were expected to see those checkpoints start up and we will, of course, tell you more about that when it starts to happen. For now, chris, ill send it back to you. Chris thank you for then update. Business owners are upset the city did not put the temporary flood walls in and the barriers by them. And pub chose to build his own wall of sand to protect his restaurant in high water. Also a a fairly windy day and we expect the wind speeds generally going to be into 25 mile an hour range and it is dry. Kyle thankfully our work weekt will be mild. We are dry and quiet here for the morning and again, anticipating this to stay dry and quiet today, too. For the most part, again, we do anticipate things to be very quiet morning forward. Areawide, we have the actual air temperatures that are primarily here on the order of upper 40s to lower 50s. Thats actually a very comfortable stuff here for this time ofe year and the feels like the season. This is what we anticipate in terms of wind speeds. Here is pinpoint futurecast, 5 toul 15 this morning and then they turn more toward the west as they are now, anywhere from 15 to 25. Youll definitely feel it today. It will be a cooler and breezy day and some of those gusts will be as high as 30 Miles Per Hour. Theyll settle back down once we lose the sunlight later today in the first alert forecast, temperatures normal highs around 70. We are mostly sunny and windy for today. For tonight, getting back down there well down to the 40s and clear and cool, again, the wind will shut off nicely once we get past midnight. Nineday forecast. 66 and 54 on wednesday. There will be midweek cloud cover. I dont want to throw the word chilly out there, but compared to where we have been, 64, wind, thats sweatshirt weather. A few hours ago, it was jarring as get from the car to the front door. 40 was cool. Relative stuff this time of year and some sunshine for the end of week. Highs around 70. Hopefully it will stay dry. Dry throughout the next week well take the chill. Business owners near the newbo area say theyre upset because the city did not put up barriers. 16th avenue, the city said, would not be effective because its not a flat serious. Hesco are large bins filled sand on both sides of the river. They act as portable floodwalls. The city used 40 feet. If they hold, they should keep out, because of design, up to 26 feet of water. Some of those restaurants and shops on the other side of thehe wall decided to put up their own protection. They built a fivefoot wall over the past few days. The Business Owner has sandbags in front of the building as well as behind the wall and the owner tells us he plans on running a generator outside. His restaurant took on so muchlo damage during the flood of 2008 and he plans to stay here to stop the floodwaters from ruining his restaurant. Its disappointing because i put a lot of time and money and effort into this building and trying to this neighborhood can grow and to be left out, it feels like it wasnt for any good. This is the best placement for it. You have a long stretch of concrete and in order to really form that waterproof barrier, i cant put it on you cant put it on soil. The owner argues the land behind thehe business is flat and am barrier would have been effective there. We want to offer phone numbers to call if you live zone and needun help. These are numbers for the united way of east central iowa. From a landline, dial 211. From a cell phone, 3197394211. If you need a place to stay during this evag situation, there are two emergency shelters set up in cedar rapids. One is st. Paul United Methodist church on the Southeast Side, and the second one is at the cedar northwest near cherry hill pool. In that cedar hill shelter, some have notten been able to check in but organizers say theyre prepared to serve hundreds of people. Stay with the news source, kcrgtv9. G of course, we are watching the rising rivers all throughout the morning. Heres a live look at the cedar river in downtown moving up quickly. About eight feet over the past 24 hours. Soso you can see as were getting ready for some of our live shots to be coming in and well take a look here on this monday morning from the cedar rapids city were expecting that crest at 23 feet, about 24 hours from now. First, well check in