Theres flooding. We strongly recommend if theres flooding to contact the local Sheriffs Office let them know where the flooding has occurred and ask our Sheriffs Office to see if there is a safe way to get to the destination. The heavy rains forced people in freeport in Winneshiek County to evacuate this morning. But tonight, authorities are lettg roads covered in water. Kcrgtv9s Samantha Myers talked with homeowners about whats next. in some areas like right here where im standing the water is still up to my knees. Several people here in this freeport neighborhood were out here just a few hours ago going into their houses trying to recover what belongings they could, and trying to clean up. Nats darcie hurst spent much of her evening shoveling water and dirt. Out several houses in the neighborhoods basements caved in. We didnt get much sleep last night checking to make sure our basement didnt cave in firefighters evacuated the neighborhood early wednesday morning and allowed people to go back to their houses around 4 oclock. A lot of mud a lot of debris, you could see just how high the water was probably a foot and a half in their house hurst says her family was lucky. But you know what im just glad my family is still safe house is still standing, well deal with it. People living in the neighborhood say they arent sure when the water will go back down. Some are staying with friends, or at hotels for the night. In freeport Samantha Myers kcrg tv9 news. There were also flooded homes, trails were also under water. The city is asking people not to go near the Upper Iowa River and to stay off the dike. The mayor of spillville, which is also in Winneshiek County, says this flood is worse than what the community faced back in 2008. Mayor mike klimesh says the turkey river in spillville set a record high today, beating the previous High Water Mark by a foot. Water filled the basements and got into the main level of at least eight homes alon spillville looked like it was sitting in the middle of a lake, and the city had just finished renovations there. There just wasnt enough time to put sandbags around the building. And down river in fort atkinson, people had to evacuate the riverside trailer park. The park sits on the Northern Edge of town, right near the turkey river. Water also covered the Railroad Tracks and highway 24 going into fort atkinson. People forced out of their homes have several options. For a reduced rate of 75 dollars a night. And a shelter at the Decorah Public Library will open at 8 tomorrow morning. And the flooding means decrah and south winneshiek schools are closed tomorrow. Meteorologist joe winters joins us now, joe, last nights rain was mostly in extreme northeastern iowa. Tonight its in the south . As a cold front continues to move south the southern half of the state. Some storms could be strong, containing heavy rain. The majority for the activity heads out of the state this evening, ushering in a quiet and comfortable end to the work week. After dry days on thursday and friday scattered thunderstorm s reenter the weather picture for saturday and sunday. Have a good night tonight chance of storms, mainly south. Wind nw 510. Low 63 alo 63 tomorrow partly sunny. Wind tonight after a jury found him not guilty of first degree murder. Today, jurors acquitted perquondis holmes, who is 25, for the death of. Daequan campbell three years ago. Campbell was 18. More than a year ago, a jury found holmes guilty, but a judge threw out that verdict. Thats because jurors in the first trial saw evidence they werent supposed to see. Prosecutors claimed holmes fired gunshots at a car the shots killed campbell. The linn county auditor says theres a good chance the county will have its highest voter turnout ever this november. 77point7 percent of registered voters cast ballots during the 2008 election president obama won. Auditor joel miller says voter turnout could break 78 percent during this years election. Republican president ial nominee donald trump says hes afraid going to be rigged. So his campaign is recruiting poll watchers in each state, including here in iowa. Miller says the precincts will be secure. But he says up to three poll watchers from each party are welcome to look over a precinct. He says those people can question whether a voter is eligable to cast a ballot, but cannot interfere directly. Poll watchers can only deal with the precincts chair. If they think there is some reason to challenge, and they have to have a specific reason, they can challenge that voter. The worst thing that a provisional ballot. Miller said a committee would then review that provision ballot and determine whether its valid. Elementary students in cedar rapids will be reading plenty of new books at school this year. The district changed the Language Arts curriculum for kindergarten through fifth grades for the first time in about ten years. So it bought more than 360thousand story books, teaching manuals, and other instructional elementary schools. It filled four semi trailers when it all arrived. A second grade teacher who helped pick the new material says students noticed the change right away. As the kids walked into my room for open house they noticed the books and the poster will all the new kids and they were very excited district policy does not allow schools to give away old books to students. But the old books can go to administrator estimates about 80 percent of the old books will go to students that way. College bound students in iowa city showed their academic strength with their new act scores. The district posted an average score of 25 point 4, which was tops in eastern iowa and fourth highest in the state. The cedar rapids districts students who took the act last year averaged 23 point five. Dubuques district avr waterloo was 20 point four. The state average for all districts was 21 point eight. A new rec center means new opportunities for students in cedar rapids. Classes begin and so do after school programs, ill tell you about a new program here in cedar rapids next first heres a look at the most viewed stories today on kcrg dotcom. Stay with your a new beginning in cedar center is preparing to open its doors eight years after flood waters destroyed its predecessor, the time check the city and the School District will open the new center at three oclock tomorrow afternoon. It features a fullsize gymnasium, an activity room, a game room and a community room. The 4point3 Million Dollar center sits on 11th street northwest, next to Harrison Elementary school. It is the last Flood Recovery project that used funds from fema, the federal Emergency Management agency. Kcrgtv9s jordee kalk is live outside the northwest rec center. Jordee, one of the programs the yes. Its called beyond the bell. The hope is for kids to get done with school here at harrison, and just walk a few short steps over here to the new rec center. But the program is open to any child in kindergarten through 8th grade. 56 44, we meet in the gym, me and my friends and maybe some other kids, and then a lady walks us over here and plays with us, gives us snacks at Harrison Elementary school. These after School Snacks are now a part of her afternoon routine. Nat but just for a few minutes. Then she, and other kids in beyond the bell, play a pickup game of soccer. Nat no problem for this up andcoming star because she claims to have the best teammate. 57 13, i had my best friend with me. Having a safe space for kids, with supervision, is the goal behind this program. Malloy athleti c coordinator they dont have to worry about bullying or their kids getting into trouble. And kids have some freedom to chose daily activities. Nat playing board games like playing board games, and once school picks up. 51 54, well give time for homework. These four are the only kids signed up for beyond the bell now. Nat . Theyre the first to touch the new gym floor. And say its a sign for a good school year ahead. 56 32, my friends, my teachers. Everything. Beyond the bell runs until 5 15, every monday through friday. The cost is about 5 dollars a day per child. Live in cedar rapids, jordee kalk, kcrg tv9 news. People in some remote towns in central italy are digging by hand as they work to find survivors under rubble more than a 150 people have died after a strong earthquake shook the indiana and ohio tonight, destroying and damaging homes in their switch to u. S. Cellular and get 50 off smartphones. Its a deal you dont 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 well cover all switching costs. Oh wow also, you g. Uh, excuse me. Switch to u. S. Cellular and get 50 off smartphones. Plus, well cover all switching costs. Excuse me, can i just. Hmm . What . I just need it back. I dont have it. I dont know what youre talking about. Move south showers and storms redevelop, mainly across the southern half of the state. Some storms could be strong, containing heavy rain. The majority for the activi this evening, ushering in a quiet and comfortable end to the work week. After dry days on thursday and friday scattered thunderstorm s reenter the weather picture for saturday and sunday. Have a good night tonight chance of storms, mainly south. Wind nw 510. Low 63 alo 63 nw 510. High 77 alo 78 tom. Night clear and cool. Wind light nw low 54 alo 53 friday mostly sunny. High 76 low 54 saturday scattered thunderstorms likely. High 77 low 62 sunday chance of storms. High 80 low 66 monday partly cloudy. High 81 low 65 tuesday partly cloudy. High 81 low 62 80 low 63 thursday chance of storms. High 80 low 64 team whenever Severe Weather hits. Just download our weather app on google play or at time, as they search for survivors in small towns across region about 24 hours ago, killing nearly 160 people. Abcs terry moran is in central italy with the latest. As First Responders continue to pull people from underneath tons of rubble. The gutwrenching images of those who perished. Lying right on the street. Covered in blankets. Children. Among the dead. This image. Capturing a nun. Sitting in front of one of those bodies sister maryanna. Des cribes her daring escape. Sot when i realized what had happened, i tried underneath the bed. I went outside to ask help, but no one heard me. The town of amariche. One of the hardest hit. Buildings. Which towered high above this hilltop town. Now disintegrated chunks of rock and concrete. Scattered everywhere. Sot theres nothing left standing. Im so sorry for so many people who are under the rubble. They are people i love. The 6point2 magnitude earthquake. Violently erupting in the middle of the night. Aftershocks and tremors. Felt along the length of the country nat pop from Pope Francis Pope francis. Now asking for the worlds prayers. This clock tower the only iconic structure left standing in the town of amariche. These before and after shots of seconds. Several tornadoes touched down in Central Indiana and western ohio late this afternoon. The National Weather Service Confirms it was an efthree tornado that struck kokomo, indiana. It destroyed a coffee shop, tore the roofs off houses and businesses and uprooted trees. About a dozen people suffered minor injuries. More twisters caused damage in the towns of antwerp and coming up next in sports, scott will feature the linnmar Football Team. And iowa strength and conditioning coach chris doyle plays a major role with the iowa football program. Stay with your 24 strength and conditioning doyle is the highest paid strength coach in the country at 595 grand a year. But he is a huge part of this iowa football program. All you have to do is look at the two starting tackles for iowa this year. Cole croston and ike buttger. Both came came in at 220 pounds and are now both 307 pounds. They have to build Football Players at iowa from the ground up. Most teams who are in the top 10 collect talent the best five star recruits in the country that is not us. Last year we went to the big 10 had gained a combined 150 pounds. So at iowa we are trying to build people bring in athletics kids and find a position that best fit them that is a big component sot 37 oc a big component dont forget we will have our first on iowa live show station this monday night at 6 30. We will have former hawkeye Football Players keenan davis, allen reisner, marv cook, and bill happel on along with pat harty who will be with us all year with chuck long. That plus the regina, solon, and jefferson Football Teams. Join us this monday night at 6 30 to kick off the season at Union Station on 16th ave. The cornell Football Team went 55 last season, its the Third Straight year the rams have finished. 500 1990s. The rams bring back seven starters on offense, including quarterback daniel brown whos entering his thirdyear as a stater. Every game slows down a little bit more and more. So, just having that experience helps me think about, ive seen this before and how do i control this and change the situation. This adversity has hit me before, how do i overcome it . In his junior year, his job is to take of the football. He does a lot of great things, he runs we the football, thats what will help us in our offense this year. And we really harped on that in practice and worked on him getting rid of the ball, throwing it away, going down and not giving turnovers away. Trt 34 oc giving turnovers away cornell will open the season at iowa wesleyan september 3rd. Their home opener is a night game against coe under the lights september 10th. The linnmar lions have high hopes this year. The lions coming off a 46 season have 22 seniors back giving them a lot of experience quarterback Reese Philips who thru for 1,587 yards last year and 13 touchdowns. Philips is one tough dude that knows how to make big plays. He really plays that sandlot role he can run can throw he is a play maker and were just excited to watch him go. The experience last year will really help us this year so many guys returning that either started or got playing time as a role player we have some big goals and one of them. We think we win a lot of Football Games practice hard execute and do what our coaches ask our goal is to make the playoffs. Sot 29 oc make the playoffs the lions will open the season at city high. And dont forget you can watch all the highlights on friday night lights endzone this friday starting at 10 30. To the diamond. The kernels looking to make it three straight against the quad cities. Top 2, river bandits with two on and one out. But kernels pitcher sean poppen gets keep the score 00. Bottom 6, still scoreless until Brandon Lopez smacks a base hit to center scoring jaylin davis. Kernels up 1 0. Two batters later, zander wiel with a dribbler down the third base line, no throw and a run scores. Kernels win 30 the Iowa Little League team was back in action today against tennessee in another elimination game. And kaiden dihn crushed this three run jac enough tennesee eliminated iowa with the 143 win. Thanks scott. One last look at the forecast, joe. As a cold front continues to move south showers and storms redevelop, mainly across the southern half of the state. Some storms could be strong, containing heavy rain. The dicky from hollywood its . Jimmy kimmel live . tonight, bob odenkirk, kendall jenner, and music from Kiefer Sutherland with cleto and the cletones. And now, stay focused, heres jimmy kimmel [ cheers and applause ] . Jimmy hi, everyone. Welcome. Very nice. Im jimmy, im the host of the show. Thanks for watching
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